Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft – Costume Swap Guide (Day 1 Method)
Use any costume from the collection in other parts of the game.
Guide to Costume Swap
Backup First!
Start by creating a copy of your original folder with the costume assets;
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Tomb Raider I-III Remastered\1\ITEM
Costume Names
Use the photo mode in-game (press F3) to find the costume names and match it to the file names. You want to know the name of both the current costume Lara will be wearing in the part of the game you’re playing and the costume you intend to swap to:
- TR1_CLASSIC=Classic 1
- TR1_GYM=Training 1
- TR2_CLASSIC=Classic 2
- TR2_GYM=Training 2
- TR2_SWIM=Wetsuit
- TR2_TIBET=Bomber
- TR2_HOME=Bathrobe
- TR3_GYM=Training 3
- TR3_NEVADA=Nevada
- TR3_COAST=Pacific
- TR3_CATSUIT=Catsuit
- TR3_ANTARC=Antarctica
Swapping the Costumes
Now to swap the costumes browse back to the folder we backed up before;
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Tomb Raider I-III Remastered\1\ITEM
You’ll see 12 files with the costume names:
Choose the costume you want to use as the replacement first. Copy and paste it in the same folder to create for example:
- OUTFIT_TR2_SWIM – Copy.TRM
Choose the costume you intend to replace, copy the name, then delete the file. If you wish to replace the starting Tomb Raider 1 costume with the Tomb Raider 2 Swim costume as an example, you would copy the following file name text before deleting the actual file:
- OUTFIT_TR1_CLASSIC.TRM
Now rename:
- OUTFIT_TR2_SWIM – Copy.TRM
As
- OUTFIT_TR1_CLASSIC.TRM
By pasting what you should still have copied to the clipboard.
Some demonstrations of it all working:
Restore Backups, Errors & Future Methods
Restore
If things go wrong simply delete the entire folder and rename the backup;
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Tomb Raider I-III Remastered\1\ITEM – Copy
As
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Tomb Raider I-III Remastered\1\ITEM
And start the guide over from the beginning, including creating a new backup
Error
If you made a mistake in the naming I believe the game will default to the original graphics model
Which as a bonus means you can play with the 1996 character model with the new environments and framerate!
Future
This is a day 1 approach that works by simply renaming files which should be deprecated soon.
Alternatively someone could probably improve this method by editing the level files to tell the entire level section to use another costume instead of replacing costume files.
In the future a piece of software will likely be created that handles costume swapping for costumes in the game and user made costumes. Keep an eye out!
Is it possible to change Lara’s TR1 / TR2 voice to match TR3?
Not sure how to reply directly; the SFX for all 3 games seem to be tied up in 1 file if I understand and it will need someone with the expertise to do it, more complicated then simply swapping file names.
I believe people have rebuilt the Main.SFX file for the old versions of the game so it should be possible to do especially if there’s a 1-to-1 match for each voice sound.